BRAC
Inside the Plaza
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- Living room at the Plaza.
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- Bathroom at the Plaza.
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- Hallway at the Plaza
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- Bedroom at the Plaza
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- Living room of the Plaza.
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- The lobby at the Plaza is pleasant.
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- View of the courtyard at the Plaza
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- The swimming pool is in the courtyard at the Plaza
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- The Plaza swimming pool in early Spring.
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- Condo living room
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- Dining Room ath the Plaza
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- Study / second bedroom.
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- Granite counters make a great finish!
The Plaza — affordable condos in close proximity to Alexandria’s BRAC
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- The Plaza is located near Alexandria’s hospital.
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- The Plaza is a courtyard condominium community.
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- Cherry blossoms in early spring at the Plaza in Alexandria VA
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- The courtyard of the Plaza in early spring.
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- The Plaza is located in the Shirley Duke area of West End Alexandria.
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- There is plenty of parking for residents and visitors at the Plaza
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- The lobby of the Plaza is quiet and pleasant.
Here’s what’s for sale at the Plaza right now:
Showing properties
1 - 4 of 4.
See more The Plaza.
(all data current as of
5/27/2012)
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$505,000 : 801n Howard St #302-304, Alexandria3 beds, 4 full baths
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$250,000 : 803 Howard St N #456, Alexandria2 beds, 2 full baths
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$262,500 : 801 Howard St N #202, Alexandria2 beds, 2 full baths
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$320,000 : 807 Howard St N #416, Alexandria2 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths
Listing information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Read full disclaimer.
Midtown Alexandria Station condos
If access is your priority, then there can be none better in the Alexandria area than the Midtown Alexandria Station Condos. Their location is ideal in three ways:
- Immediate metro access: The condos are literally across the street from the Huntington Metro Station. It is actually a shorter walk from the condos than from some of the metro parking.
- Immediate access to Beltway and I-95. The Telegraph Rd intersection with the Beltway is just a half mile down Huntington Ave.
- Richmond Highway shopping. With every essential need from hardware stores, grocery stores, clothing stores, and every imaginable restaurant all within a few miles south on Route 1.
Rooftop pool at Midtown Alexandria Station
If that’s not enough, the Midtown Condos are also brand new, built in 2007 they get as close to that “new condo smell” as you can find with this great a location. Included in the condo amenities you’ll find:
- Outdoor Pool
- Gym
- Club Room
- Tennis Courts
- Sun Deck
- Guest Rooms
- Sauna
Interested in seeing what’s available at Midtown Alexandria Station Condos? Call us any time.
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About the Author — Ben Fornshell is a licensed real estate agent with Condo Alexandria. To learn more about available rentals and purchases in the area check out our free search.
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Westlee condominium homes
Westlee condos
The Westlee is nestled less than four short blocks from East Falls Church station on the Orange Line. The units are graced with soaring 10 foot ceilings. Included in the amenities are a classy and grandiose club room as well as a gym for the residents. 24 hour access control and garage parking make this a well secured home.
Right next door you’ll find the Bear Rock Cafe and the La Cote D’Or Cafe with a Baskin Robbins to sate your sweet tooth just two blocks away.
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Ben Forshell
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About the Author — Ben Fornshell is a licensed real estate agent with Condo Alexandria. To learn more about available rentals and purchases in the area check out our free search.
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Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) and Fort Belvoir
Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) is service-wide restructuring of bases and personnel in the US military. BRAC mandated at that about 20,000 jobs move to Fort Belvoir. As Belvoir adjusted to this influx, Army officials sought nearby facilities that would satisfy BRAC mandates, but would relieve pressure from the crowded gates of Belvoir.
As a result, last month, US Army officials announced the movement of 6,400 jobs to Alexandria. There was some opposition from state and Fairfax County officials, but ultimately the decision was made to pass-over an alternate site in Springfield and head for Mark Center in Alexandria. This move is still ahead of the 2001 deadline required by BRAC.
Mark Center is a yet to be built office complex near Seminary Road at the I-395 interchange. According to some news sources, the Army construction project at the Mark Center could cost up to $1 billion. Ground-breaking on this new project will begin in January.
This is of course good news for home sellers and owners in Alexandria and Fairfax County as an influx of service members will help steady housing prices. Fairfax County and Prince William County and Commonwealth officials argued that the site at Mark Center is not well served by the Virginia Railway Express and as a result the new site will contribute to congestion on local roads.
No doubt 6400 additional commuters will place additional burdens on local roadways. But many of these service members and support staff will opt to live in Fairfax County and Alexandria rather than in outlying areas such as Prince William and Stafford Counties.
Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) impact on area real estate
How will BRAC affect area real estate? Well, one of the big pieces to that puzzle was solved at the end of last month when the announcement was made that Fort Belvoir was going to add the Mark Center to its list of holdings rather than heading for Springfield. Donald Carr Director of Public Relations for the US Army at Fort Belvoir contacted me in response to my recent post. He said, “of the total 19,300 jobs, 4,400 are coming to main post Fort Belvoir; 8,500 to the EPG (Engineer Proving Grounds); and, 6,400 to the Mark Center. Additionally, only about 500 of the 19,300 are actually new population incoming to the region.”
This makes clear that there will probably be no great regional surge in home values as a result of these changes. In fact, many service members may opt to stay where they are and drive across town to new offices and locations. The official press release regarding the Mark Center:
The U.S. Army announced today, Sept. 29, that the Mark Center in Alexandria, Va., will be the future home of the 6,400 personnel associated with the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure, Recommendation # 133. The decision puts in place the last piece of the Fort Belvoir, Va., BRAC initiative that sites more than 19,000 workers to the installation.
The BRAC 133 jobs – a collection of Defense Department-level agencies whose move is being managed by the Washington Headquarters Service – are the last remaining of those being realigned to Fort Belvoir.
“The decision concludes more than a year of work by hundreds of people in the Army, surrounding communities, and all levels of government to develop proposals and options for review by the selection board,” said Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment Keith Eastin.
Following completion of Fort Belvoir’s BRAC Environmental Impact Study in Summer 2007, the Army’s Record of Decision, or ROD, directed placement of all but the BRAC 133 jobs. The jobs originally would have been placed at Fort Belvoir’s Engineer Proving Ground in Springfield, Va.
However, because another 8,500 jobs of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency were also placed there, significant concerns for traffic impacts in the area prompted the Army to agree to limit EPG to the NGA jobs, and to look elsewhere for the BRAC 133 jobs. In September 2007 evaluators began work to study alternative sites, including the General Services Administration warehouse site in Springfield and commercial sites in the region.
BRAC legislation and follow-on language in the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act allow the Army to purchase land in the National Capital Region to facilitate Fort Belvoir’s realignment. “Any non-DOD site selected would have to become part of Fort Belvoir in order to comply with the law,” Eastin said. The Army must now buy the Mark Center property to make it part of Fort Belvoir.
In arriving at the Mark Center decision, Eastin said the Army considered multiple factors, including project timelines, transportation management and site adaptability. “The Mark Center site resolves security issues, improves space requirements and mission relationships, and minimizes changes to existing living, working, and quality of life issues,” he said.
“The Mark Center site minimizes to the greatest extent practicable disruption of current commuting needs and mission coordination requirements of the workers,” said James Turkel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who led the evaluation team. “It will also require little to no change in contractor support relationships, as well as changes to residency or schools requirements for the workers.”
Eastin echoed the point. “The new commute for the realigned personnel supports their mission by keeping them in close proximity to the Pentagon agencies and senior leaders they support,” he said.
Post officials said putting the jobs at the Alexandria City site reduces the number of jobs coming to Fairfax County’s part of the post to 12,900 – 4,400 to Fort Belvoir’s main post, and 8,500 to Engineer Proving Ground.
The Army must now purchase the Mark Center property to meet BRAC law and plans to make the purchase before the end of the year. Construction is scheduled to begin on the site in January 2009, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
